On This Cinco de Mayo M&D SPOILER

[Thomas Vieth]

>From owner-pynchon-l at waste.org Sat May 10 06:08:09 1997
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>***MASON & DIXON SPOILER *****
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>>Organization: MusiKarma
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>>Date:   Mon, 5 May 1997 15:44:32 -0500
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>>Subject: On This Cinco (hol) de Mayo
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>> In 1760, Earl Ferrers, the last British peer to be executed, was
>> hanged in London for murdering his steward.
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>      *****  Shouldn't?  the full Pynchon-list version have read: and
>Charles Mason attended the hanging at Tyburn and little Florinda sang this
>ballad, in a pleasant Alto
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>        Twas the Fifth Day of May, in
>        The Year of our Lord, Seven-
>        -Teen hundred sixty and zero,
>        That the brave Lord Ferrers
>        und so weiter....
>                                thus spoiling p. 109
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>> In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and conqueror of much
>> of Europe, died a British prisoner on the island of St. Helena.
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>        Shouldn't  the full Pynchon  version have read: yes, on the very
>self-same island of St Helena where Charles Mason got such an awful
>Exposure to the Wind (which is virtually the voices of the Planet, alle
>zusammen...Yes, the very self-same Napoleon whose Awful Nativity (On the
>15th of August 1769, in Corsica, you know, the Island with that Upyours
>Finger Shape) is so Awfully Heralded by that Kirghiz Light in theSsky of
>Ireland that summer of 1769: And there. In Leo, bright-man'd, lo, it came.
>It came ahead. And 'twould be but Prelude to the Finger of Corsica     ...
>as once beneath a star an Infant that must, again, re-make the World
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>                ** thus spoiling M&D p. 726
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>Now, isn't that interesting also with regard to that fucking joke of Dixon's 
that he never seems to finish? Haven't finished, thus can't tell.
Thomas
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